Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them.

I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion.

The importance of a high moral code, which is at the foundation of the Scout movement, cannot be stressed too highly.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.